HAXTON, Manerva 1831-1917

HAXTON, BENSON

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 1/11/2022 at 13:12:02

Mrs. Manerva Haxton Dead

Well Known and Highly Respected Felix Twp. Woman Dies

Manerva Benson was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, on the 14th of December 1831.

When about seven years of age, she, with her parents, John and Almenda Benson came to Iowa which was then a territory, first locating near Muscatine, about a year later the family removed to Jackson county and later located at Delhi, Delaware county, where they lived for a number of years, afterwards settled in Hardin county, Iowa, in its early pioneer days.

She received her education at Lenox college at Hopkinton, Iowa, where she fitted herself for the noble calling of teacher, and was among the pioneer teachers in the public schools of Delaware and Hardin counties.

In May 1865, she was married to Sumner Haxton and settled upon a farm in Felix township, Grundy county. To this union were born four children; Delavan Benson, who died at the age of twenty-three years, Albertus S., and Annis Mabel who survive her and Julian who died in infancy. She also leaves to mourn her loss, five grandchildren and one great-grandson.

In the spring of 1893 she and her husband left the farm and made their home in Whitten, Iowa, where the husband, Sumner Haxton, died in September, 1903.

She identified herself with the Christian church at Whitten in 1901 and has since been a faithful active member.

Her whole life has been a life of purity, integrity and honesty, no higher compliment could be paid one than to say, "she was honest" and this can be most truthfully said of Manerva Benson Haxton, honest in what she did, honest in what she said and honest in what she thought.

She died August 1, 1917, at the home of her son Albertus Haxton in Felix township, Grundy county, Iowa, on the old farm where her married life began more than half a century ago.

Funeral services were held at the home of her son A. S. Haxton, Friday, Aug. 3rd, at 2:30 p.m. conducted by Rev. Eugene Curless and the remains were laid to rest on the family lot in the Benson cemetery.

--The Grundy Republican (Grundy Center, Iowa), 9 August 1917